Version 7.0.0a1
Released Nov. 10, 2017
445.9 KiB
Works with
Firefox for Android 48.0 and later, Firefox 42.0 and later

Version 6.3.0a1
Released March 31, 2017
753.2 KiB
Works with
Firefox 36.0 - 49.0

This beta version addresses the recent changes on Vimeo causing videos to be downloaded without the audio.Video and audio streams are now downloaded separately and require the use of the converter to aggregate the streams to a single file. This operation is automatic but you have to install the converter.

Fixed H264 not being properly decoded on some HLS videos. This was causing the generated file to only play audio

Fixed the case of scrolling down a page containing many videos (like a tumblr site dedicated to videos) while some of the videos are being downloaded. After passing the limit of videos from a same source (default is 15), downloads could not be seen and managed properly

Prevented text selection in main panel. In some conditions, it was difficult to unselect

Fixed layout issue in download progress bars

Fixed HTML warnings in settings page

Of course, this version contains improvements from previous beta releases:

6.2.0a4: fixed audio when playing HLS videos on Windows Media Player

6.2.0a2: support for encrypted HLS streams

6.2.0a1: support for YouTube DASH streaming (causing some video not to be detected)

A number of YouTube videos are streamed using not only ADP (video and audio on different streams), but each stream being only available using the DASH protocol: not a single URL to an audio or video file, but instead a number of chunks that need to be downloaded and reworked to produce a single file. As a result, those videos were not even displayed in the Video DownloadHelper interface. Version 6.2.0a1 solves this case.Russian locale (87% complete) has been added.

This version fixes a bug where when on a Mac or Linux, ffmpeg is used instead of libav, the add-on mis-detects the converter to not supporting the VP9. As a result, some YouTube are not detected while they are available.